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ChamberFest Cleveland Artistic Director Meet & Greet
Wednesday, May 17 @ 7:00pmAre you curious how this novel inspired the festival concerts? Join ChamberFest Cleveland artistic directors Diana Cohen and Roman Rabinovich to find out more! This gathering will begin with a short overview about Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being (presented by Steve Pinkerton, Lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University) followed by a discussion with the ChamberFest artistic directors about the process of curating music for the festival concerts. Stay for a Q&A session and time to mix and mingle. (Beer and wine available for purchase).
Steve Pinkerton teaches and writes about 20th-century literature and culture. Before coming to Case Western he taught at Cornell University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the University of Texas at Austin. His first book, Blasphemous Modernism: The 20th-Century Word Made Flesh (Oxford, 2017), shows how a shared commitment to blasphemy shaped the modernist imagination from Ulysses to the Harlem Renaissance to The Satanic Verses. His other writings have appeared in Genre, Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, the James Joyce Quarterly, the African American Review, and elsewhere. He’s working now on a book provisionally called “Outlaws in Christ: The Profane Preacher and the Modern American Novel.”
